Michael J. Murphy, PhD🏳️🌈
@emmjaymurphee.bsky.social
•Prof., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield uis.edu/wgs
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
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This is a professional account where I skeet in my capacity as a University of Illinois professor and in my areas of subject matter expertise or interest. The university does not pay me enough to be its spokesperson.
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The Studio Museum in Harlem has a new, stunning home. The 57-year-old New York institution, dedicated to artists of African descent, inaugurated its new building in a press preview ahead of its grand public reopening next Saturday.
A Look Inside the Studio Museum’s New Home
After a seven-year closure, the beloved Harlem institution is opening its new building to the public on November 15.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Studio Museum in Harlem has a new, stunning home. The 57-year-old New York institution, dedicated to artists of African descent, inaugurated its new building in a press preview ahead of its grand public reopening next Saturday.
Another sad capitulation to fascism:
Cornell University settles with Trump administration to restore $250m in funds
Upstate New York institution is the fifth university under government investigation to bow to White House demands
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Another sad capitulation to fascism:
My uni doesn't pay staff a living wage (for the county it's in) but that doesn't stop the chancellor from mass-mailing all employees urging donations to local food charities. Honey! Who do you think is using those charities, if not the unis janitors, food workers, and secretaries?!
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My uni doesn't pay staff a living wage (for the county it's in) but that doesn't stop the chancellor from mass-mailing all employees urging donations to local food charities. Honey! Who do you think is using those charities, if not the unis janitors, food workers, and secretaries?!
“Do not obey in advance.”–Tim Snyder, On Tyranny
U of Illinois System Bans Consideration of Race, Sex in Hiring, Tenure, Student Aid https://bit.ly/3L4duuL
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“Do not obey in advance.”–Tim Snyder, On Tyranny
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That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.
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Husband and I were just comparing pay. He’s in a unionized faculty and his salary has increased 14% over 2 years. I’m in a non-union position and mine has increased 7.5% in 4 years (plus my retirement matching has been cut in half).
🙃🙃 as if there weren’t a million reasons to unionize already
🙃🙃 as if there weren’t a million reasons to unionize already
October 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Husband and I were just comparing pay. He’s in a unionized faculty and his salary has increased 14% over 2 years. I’m in a non-union position and mine has increased 7.5% in 4 years (plus my retirement matching has been cut in half).
🙃🙃 as if there weren’t a million reasons to unionize already
🙃🙃 as if there weren’t a million reasons to unionize already
Gender studies was also killed by years of faculty and administrators who stopped defending it or actively aimed to destroy it.
Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities
Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Gender studies was also killed by years of faculty and administrators who stopped defending it or actively aimed to destroy it.
So many lies in the linked video but it gave rise to this great thread on the intersection of clothing and labor history. Union? Yes! ✊
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So many lies in the linked video but it gave rise to this great thread on the intersection of clothing and labor history. Union? Yes! ✊
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UPDATE: Following court order, UC has posted the UCLA settlement proposal on its website: ucop.edu/communicatio...
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
UPDATE: Following court order, UC has posted the UCLA settlement proposal on its website: ucop.edu/communicatio...
No university administrator should make more than its highest paid professor. Period. #AcademicSky
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
No university administrator should make more than its highest paid professor. Period. #AcademicSky
Me (advising my queer students to not participate in a campus climate survey)
a cartoon character says run run for your lives !!!
Alt: a muppet character saying run for your lives!!!
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Me (advising my queer students to not participate in a campus climate survey)
What do you call it when a campus climate survey does harm to the minority populations it attempts to survey? Administrative violence?
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What do you call it when a campus climate survey does harm to the minority populations it attempts to survey? Administrative violence?
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
The cruelty is the point
US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’
Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The cruelty is the point
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Dartmouth becomes the 6th university to reject Trump’s higher education compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Dartmouth's Feedback on the Compact | Office of the President
president.dartmouth.edu
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dartmouth becomes the 6th university to reject Trump’s higher education compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
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The youth in Chicago say “NO KINGS!”
AAUP DePaul is organizing faculty AND the kids!
The fight for free speech and academic freedom is intergenerational!
#NoKings #DefendHigherEd #AAUP
AAUP DePaul is organizing faculty AND the kids!
The fight for free speech and academic freedom is intergenerational!
#NoKings #DefendHigherEd #AAUP
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The youth in Chicago say “NO KINGS!”
AAUP DePaul is organizing faculty AND the kids!
The fight for free speech and academic freedom is intergenerational!
#NoKings #DefendHigherEd #AAUP
AAUP DePaul is organizing faculty AND the kids!
The fight for free speech and academic freedom is intergenerational!
#NoKings #DefendHigherEd #AAUP
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
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If you're in the Portland area, stop by a Kaiser to show solidarity with the Oregon Federation for Nurses and Health Professionals! We've got hot dogs, real dogs, unicorns, Guy Fieri, music, and so much more! I'm posted up at the Hillsboro location atm.
October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you're in the Portland area, stop by a Kaiser to show solidarity with the Oregon Federation for Nurses and Health Professionals! We've got hot dogs, real dogs, unicorns, Guy Fieri, music, and so much more! I'm posted up at the Hillsboro location atm.
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The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Sign the petition against loyalty pledges in higher education!
Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025
We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...
actionnetwork.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sign the petition against loyalty pledges in higher education!
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
